HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to No. The level of ignorance is obvious, clear and convincing.

Moshe Dayan did not say what you claim.

As with many other memes you repeat, you have a tendency to "edit" them as time goes on.

Chomsky's quote, endlessly repeated by himself and other progressives who reference Chomsky, is:

We have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.


Chomsky got this quote second hand from the Israeli author Yossi Beilin in the book Mehiro shel Ihud The book is in Hebrew.

The full quote (translated from Hebrew) is from an RAFI secretariat meeting in September of 1967. During an argument between Dayan and Shimon Perez. Dayan says:

"let's say 'we don’t have a solution, and you will continue living like dogs, and whoever wants will go, and we'll see how this procedure will work out.' For now, it works out. Let’s say the truth. We want peace. If there is no peace, we will maintain military rule and we will have four to five military compounds on the mountains, and they will sit ten years under the Israeli military regime. Whoever wants to go, will want. It’s possible that in five years, there will be 200,000 fewer people, and that’s an enormous thing.”


He was talking about Palestinian refugees on the West Bank. Not all Palestinians, or even all Palestinians on the West Bank.

Since this is a translation, Chomsky's quote is accurate enough, but missing context.

"Kill them all" isn't even from Chomsky. It's just you, altering facts to something you prefer.

And that's just one thing you've been throwing around loosely. There are more examples.

You really have no business being smug on the subject of "ignorance." Seriously.

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